Exam 7: Crime and Deviance

Bureaucrats may be inflexible because they fear criticism or liability if they do not follow the rules closely.

Which of the following statements best describes Barnard's (1938)research findings on informal groups?

Which of the following is NOT part of the informal structure of bureaucracies?

When are the dangers of groupthink the greatest?

The "jocks" and the members of the chess club at a local high school seldom speak to one another.Which terms best reflect this situation?

What was the main independent variable in Asch's conformity experiments?

Failing to consider alternatives is part of what stage in Janis's description of groupthink?

What is a collection of two or more people who interact frequently with one another,share a sense of belonging,and have a feeling of interdependence?

Kanter found that bureaucratic workers faced difficulties when they failed to fit what?

According to functionalists,groups serve to meet our instrumental and expressive needs.

Shopping on the internet results in disintermediation and is having a major impact on the structure of organizations that sell consumer goods and services.

In the early 1970s,social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that he told participants was a study of the effect of punishment on learning.What was Milgram honestly researching?

Logan is surfing the Web when he decides to look up as many people as possible who share his birthdate of May 24,1998.What do Logan and these people form?

What kind of group is a larger,more specialized grouping in which the members engage in more impersonal,goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time?

Networks have always had an advantage over other organizational forms because they are very agile and can quickly adapt to new circumstances.

McDonaldization is primarily a North American phenomenon.

Christopher attends a large university and knows very few people in his classes.In his sociology class,however,he was required to meet weekly with a group of three other people to work on a term project.For the remaining three years of their studies,they kept meeting weekly at the local pub to discuss classes and life at university.What type of social group do Christopher and the others make?

Which of the following statements best reflects the symbolic interactionist perspective on groups?

What is NOT a characteristic of bureaucracy?

Goal displacement occurs when administrators overconform to the rules because their expertise is knowledge of the regulations.